LEES Jason

Wheelchair Rugby

Date of Birth: 1 Mar 1977

Age: 44

Gender: Male

Sport Class: 1.0

Place of residence : LARA, VIC

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Rugby	Mixed AUS Australia	4

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Mixed - Pool Phase Group A #02 AUS Australia 53 DEN Denmark 54	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Mixed - Pool Phase Group A #07 FRA France 48 AUS Australia 50	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Mixed - Pool Phase Group A #10 AUS Australia 53 JPN Japan 57	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Mixed - Semifinal #14 USA United States 49 AUS Australia 42	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Mixed - Bronze Medal #17 AUS Australia 52 JPN Japan 60	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Mixed	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
1	Mixed	2012	London, GBR
World Championships
1	Mixed	2014	Odense, DEN
2	Mixed	2018	Sydney, NSW, AUS
2	Mixed	2010	Vancouver, BC, CAN

Banger [because of his love for heavy metal music]. (paralympic.org.au, 02 Jan 2012)

Watching Australia rules football and cricket. (smh.com.au, 30 Nov 2019)

Wife Melanie, two daughters

Languages spoken:

Brad Dubberley [national], AUS

He began playing wheelchair rugby in 2002. (geelongadvertiser.com.au, 07 Sep 2016)

"I first saw wheelchair rugby while in rehab in the spinal ward. It seemed like a really full-on, intense game, really fast-paced. It just appealed to me. I was going through a hard time adapting to this huge change in my life, and getting involved in sport and wheelchair rugby got me through." (starweekly.com.au, 06 Jul 2016)

Representing Australia at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (paralympic.org.au, 07 Jan 2020)

Australian rules footballer Glenn Archer, Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist. (paralympic.org.au, Sep 2012)

Philosophy:

"Losing will hurt more." (paralympic.org.au, 07 Jan 2020)

In 2014 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia [OAM]. (paralympic.org.au, 26 Jan 2014)

In 2011 he was named one of the All-Star Four by the Australian National Wheelchair Rugby League [NWRL]. (foxsportspulse.com, 2013)

General Interest

Classification
1.0 (IWRF, 01 Feb 2020)

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (paralympic.org.au, 01 Sep 2012)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (paralympic.org.au, 01 Sep 2012)

Impairment Details
He has quadriplegia after breaking his neck in a motocross accident in 2000 in Laverton, VIC, Australia. (starweekly.com.au, 06 Jul 2016; paralympic.org.au, 01 Sep 2012)

General
PARALYMPIC DREAM
He began playing wheelchair rugby as a hobby and only became interested in the competitive side of the game after seeing some of the players he trained with representing Australia at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. "For about the first four or five years I was just happy to go down once a week and have a crash in the chairs and have a bit of a laugh. I remember sitting at my mate's house when the Beijing Paralympics were on, [watching] a couple of cracking games in Beijing, it got me hooked. That was sort of the turning point where I really wanted to, you know, try to train hard and try to sort of see if that's somewhere that I could get to myself. I would probably describe it as a light bulb moment. Pretty much from then I just sort of changed my attitude towards training and my fitness." (smh.com.au, 30 Nov 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/jason.lees.12

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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